Blogged product reviews on your mobile…
.. by taking a snapshot of the product\’s barcode:
Toshiba has developed mobile-phone technology that searches for product reviews on up to 100 Web journals, or blogs, in 10 seconds. Just use the phone\’s digital camera to snap a photo of the bar code of a product you\’re thinking about buying. The bar-code information is sent wirelessly to a Toshiba server, which gathers data on blogs from the Internet and analyzes them, and then sends a reply back to the cellphone. [via USAtoday]
I wonder what kind of traffic to product-blogs this will generate… but interesting technology it is and it shows the growing importance and influence of weblogs.
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